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My Lawsuit Will Shine a Light on Twitter Censorship

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The Wall Street Journal
By Alex Berenson

Do social-media companies collude with the federal government to suppress speech? On April 29, Judge William Alsup issued a ruling in a case I brought against Twitter that could become a watershed in holding social-media companies accountable for censorship.

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This problem became acute at the outset of the Covid-19 pandemic. On Jan. 29, 2020, Twitter declared: Were committed to playing our part to amplify authoritative, official content across the globe. Facebook essentially forbade discussion that the virus might have leaked from a Chinese lab. Today debate over the lab-leak theory is allowed, but free discussion of the side effects and efficacy of Covid vaccines isnt.

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